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Game #368

Aston Villa

15-3-6, 33 PTS

Saturday, 18 February 1899

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Lost

1st=

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Division One

Nottingham Forest

7-10-9, 24 PTS

City Ground

Attendance: 11,000

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

Nottingham Forest

1-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 18 February 1899

🥅 | 44’ Goal, 0-1, (Nottingham Forest)
🕒 | HT Nottingham Forest 1-0 Aston Villa
🕒 | FT Nottingham Forest 1-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 18 February 1899
  • Leaders Villa lose their second successive League match and suffer their second defeat to Forest in three games. 

  • As a result Villa remain first in the table with 10 games to play but were now only ahead of Liverpool on goal ratio although they retained two games in hand on their nearest rivals.

  • Winger Jack Sharp made his final appearance for Villa aged 21 before moving on to Everton as Villa lost their second successive League match and their second defeat to Forest in three games.

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

🔴 W Jack Sharp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1896–97

Nottingham Forest

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1897-98

FIXTURE HISTORY
Nottingham Forest
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Previous 5 vs. Forest: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

League 🕒 14 | 🟩 11 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 3 | ⚽ 34 | 🥅 18 |
FA Cup 🕒 4 | 🟩 3 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 1 | ⚽ 13 | 🥅 6 |
Away 🕒 9 | 🟩 5 | 🟨 0 | 🟥 4 | ⚽ 18 | 🥅 16 |

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

Nottingham Forest

PREVIOUS MATCH
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Nottingham Forest

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1898-99 |
Matchday | #25 |
League Match | #24 |
Manager Game | #342 |
Saturday, 18 February 1899

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🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: J. Fox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

🕒 342 | 🟩 193 🟨 52 🟥 97 | 1.85

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: J. Fox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield, 1894-

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

CARDS
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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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TEAM NEWS
TEAM STATS

Villa make two changes from the team that lost to Preston last time out with Howard Spencer coming in for his first appearance of the season, whilst Jack Sharp makes his first appearance in 6, with Jimmy Crabtree and Jack Cowan dropping out.

Starting XI Average Age
| 26.19 |

Oldest Player |
F Jack Devey | 32.17 |

Youngest Player |
W Jack Sharp | 21.02 |

Referee

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

MANAGER

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

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Aston Villa

GK Billy George | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
FB Albert Evans | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Bowman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Howard Spencer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Albert Wilkes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Steve Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Jack Sharp | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔴 |
F Jack Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Fred Wheldon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F George Johnson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Harry Hallam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Nottingham Forest

Allsopp
Iremonger
Scott
McCracken
McPherson
Norris
Bradshaw
Capes
Spencer
Morris
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Line Ups

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

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Substitutes

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

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🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
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🟨
🟥
🥅
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Red
GK Billy George | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
SUBSTITUTES
Player
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🟨
🟥
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Red
UNUSED
Player
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Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺

Squad Bios

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

SQUAD STATS
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SQUAD STATS
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🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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International Duty | 2 |
M Jimmy Crabtree | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Charlie Athersmith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH QUOTES
"When the interval was reached (Devey and Wheldon meanwhile having shown prominently) the Villians had not succeeded in equalising."
Quotes

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Sporting Life*
Monday, 18 February 1899
NOTTS FOREST v. ASTON VILLA. THE FORESTERS WIN AGAIN. These clubs fought their battle o’er again the shape of the League ties on the City Grounds Nottingham, on Saturday afternoon. It may be remembered that they were drawn to meet in the first round of the Association Cup on the same enclosure, and the home team scored a victory by two goals to one. On Saturday they again triumphed, though only one goal to nil. The weather was charmingly fine, and the attendance exceeded 15,000 spectators, excitement running, as usual, extremely high. In consequence of the International match of England v. Ireland at Sunderland, the Reds were deprived of the services of the Brothers Forman; whilst Aston Villa were without the assistance of Crabtree and Athersmith. The Villa captain won the toss, but there was little or no wind to interfere with the respective chances of the rivals. Forest started towards the goal nearest the River Trent, and. generally speaking, their forwards were seen to greater advantage than those of the opposing side. Morris and Spencer, composing the Reds’ left wing, were in brilliant form, and displayed surprising dash, often calling upon George, who, however, excelled in his capacity goalkeeper. When the game had progressed twenty-five minutes the local forwards again dashed through, and an attack on the part of tho Forest right resulted in Spencer striking the cross-bar. The ball rebounded into play, but at that moment Morris rushed forward and headed it into the net amid loud cheering. When the interval was reached (Devey and Wheldon meanwhile having shown prominently) the Villians had not succeeded in equalising. In the second half the visitors displayed improved combination, and frequently assailed the home stronghold, though this was invariably stoutly defended by Scott, Ironmonger and Allsopp. The first-named on one occasion saved brilliantly from Johnson, the Villa centre, and later Allsop was loudly cheered for effectively dealing with a grand shot from the foot of Wheldon. Towards the close Morris, the Forest inside left, executed a series of magnificent runs, and throughout the struggle his play was the feature of the match, which finally ended as stated.
Reports

🟥 18 Feb 1899, Villa 0-1 Forest, City Ground

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